Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Apr 28 2022 07:08:00

-=> Nightfox wrote to claw <=-

 Ni> I like the nostalgic stories too.  And I think it's funny that back
 Ni> when broadband internet was becoming more common, it seemed so cool to
 Ni> have a super high-speed internet connection that was always connected,
 Ni> but now sometimes I want to use a modem with a phone line again to dial
 Ni> into a BBS.

I've ranted before about my time with ISDN. I had a Shiva LAN Rover, a dial- 
in server at work. It was connected to my office network, you'd dial into it 
and get a PPP connection to the work network. We had a couple of 56K lines 
and ISDN lines going into it.

I had an ISDN line at my house, and with a little playing around with my 
modem, could use the modem to pass an analog call to the BBS, have a second 
line hunt to the BBS when the first was busy, use 1 line to make an outbound 
56K connection to the internet, or bond both lines to make a 112kbps 
connection.

About this time I discovered Fido via FTP, and could download Fido packets 
4x/day instead of once at night.

Good times.


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